8-11 Aug 1985
Works performed:
(1) Kelly: Washington DC; Gregson: Music for Greenwich; Holst (arr. Herbert): First Suite in Eflat, Second Suite in F; Ireland: Elegy; Arnold: Fantasy for brass band; Bantock: Prometheus Unbound; Vaughan Williams (arr. Wright) Suite of English Folk Songs; Elgar: Marches, Pomp and Circumstance Nos. 1 and 4; Koenig: Post Horn Galop
(2) Bach: Prelude in C, Italian Concerto, Air on the G String, Prelude in Cminor, Toccata and Fugue in Dminor, Chromatic Fantasia, Chorale: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, Gavotte in Dminor, Concerto in D minor
(3) Debussy: La boîte à joujou; Busoni: Sonatina No. 6 super Carmen; Poulenc: L'histoire de Babar le petit éléphant
(4) Bach: Orchestral Suites No.4 in D, No. 1 in C, No. 2 in Bminor, No. 3 in D
(5) Jazz of the Thirties, based on the performances of the Hot Club of France quintet
(6) Bach: Toccata in Gminor; Mozart: Sonata in D; Liszt: Sonata in Bminor; Poulenc: Three Novolettes; Barber: Sonata in Eflat minor
(7) Arrangements of Bach, Handel and others (8) The Strauss family: Waltzes, Polkas and Marches; Zeller, Lehâr: Operatic arias
(8) Traditional: Folk Music
Venues: Snape Maltings Concert Hall
Performers:
(1) Richard Baker (speaker); Cambridge Co-operative Band; David Read (conductor)
(2) Jacques Loussier (piano); Vincent Charbonnier (double-bass); Andre Arpino (percussion)
(3) Peter Pears, Julia Lang (narrators); Benjamin Frith (piano)
(4) Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra; Ton Koopman (conductor)
(5) Nigel Kennedy's Diz Dizley All Stars
(6) Jon Kimura Parker (piano);
(7) The New Swingle Singers
(8) Patricia Cope (soprano); Johann Strauss Orchestra; Jack Rothstein (violin and director)
(8) Alistair Anderson, Cilla Fisher, Dick Gaughan, Artie Trezise, Clann na Gael (folk singers and instrumentalists)
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Archive
https://www.bpacatalogue.org/archive/PG-SM-1985-18